Criminology Chapter 10 Flashcards
Define gender gap
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Define generalization program
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What is the dramatic difference in male and female offending?
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What are the crime rates for male versus female in different types of crimes?
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What did Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics report for girls and boys in 2009?
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What are the crime rates for male youth versus female youth in different types of crimes?
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Summarize figure 10.1 (doesn’t have to be exact)
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What happened in the late 1980s for crime rates for women?
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What was the book “Women and Crime” and “Sisters in Crime” about? What was its results?
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What does it mean that gender gap in arrests for violent crime is narrowing?
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What are the three hypothesis for change in gender gap in crime and what are they about?
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What did the work of Janet Lauritsen, Karen Heimer and James Lynch use and what did they suggest/argue? And what did they do?
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What are three approaches to understanding women’s involvement in crime and what are they about?
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What is an example of a break from a biological emphasis that came with social learning theories?
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What did Ruth Morris do?
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Define socialization
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What did Darrell Steffensmeier and Emilie Allan argue about?
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What did recent studies explored?
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What are some things social learning perspective emphasizes on?
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What happened with the interview that was conducted by Christopher Mullins, Richard Wright and Bruce Jacobs? What did they found out?
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Define gendered
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What does the control perspective focuses on?
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What did Tarvis Hirschi’s book “Causes of Delinquency” examine?
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What did Michael Gottfedon and Tarvis Hirschi “General Theory of Crime” focused on?
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What was “life-course-developmental theory” of informal social control about?
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What is a key issue for theories of social control and what do theories of social control include?
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What is the power-control theory and define it? What does it focus on?
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Power control theory also has a _____ element. What does it argue about?
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